About this item
From Time Museum creator Matt Loux comes a sweet and gently macabre graphic novel for young readers.There are whispers around the village that monsters are lurking outside the gates. Prunella doesn't pay this talk much mind -- until she unearths a strange skull-shaped ring in her garden. When she places it on her finger she's transformed into a skeleton girl, terrifying her monster-fearing town! Exiled, Prunella wanders the wilderness, where she discovers that monsters aren't as bad as she's been led to believe.With her new friends, undead pirate Captain Rip Skeleton and Francis, a floating, fiery skull, at her side, Prunella is sure to find a way to reverse this curse ... but does she really want to?
About the Author
Matthew Loux is the author and artist of the graphic novels The Time Museum (published by First Second Books) and The Time Museum Vol. 2, (to be released June 11th of 2019) , Sidescrollers and the five volume series Salt Water Taffy (originally published by Oni Press) . The Time Museum Vol. 1 received a starred Kirkus review, was listed on the 2018 Texas Library Association's prestigious Maverick list, was a Panda Book Award winner of 2018 and was nominated for the RI Children's Book Award. Sidescrollers was placed on the American Library Association's YALSA, Great Graphic Novels for Teens, list of 2008 and in 2009 Salt Water Taffy was placed on the Texas Library Association's Maverick list. Matthew also illustrated the graphic novel F-Stop and the board comic Good Night Gabbaland based on the Nick Jr. television show Yo Gabba Gabba and has contributed comics and cover art for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.Matthew lives in New York and is currently working on his first watercolor painted comic soon to be announced.
